After Rachel Weisz had her son four years ago, all she wanted to make was romantic comedies. She sought out a warm and fuzzy professional world to match her personal one. So there she was playing the ...

“There is more that unites us than divides us,” says Hypatia (Rachel Weisz), a fourth-century scholar in Alexandria, Egypt, who teaches Christian and pagan students alike in the bold, mesmerizing ...

Alejandro Amenábar’s film Agora, starring Rachel Weisz as the celebrated pagan mathematician and philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, has occasioned a number of online reality checks regarding the ...

Agora presents a world split in two by the ousting of the old by the supplanting of the new. Agora parallels real world antagonism in an important way: peaceful religions twisted in violent aggression ...

How can it be that this provocative movie has been all but overlooked this year? Not so long ago a film this epic would have been celebrated by the industry and by audiences as great entertainment ...

It isn’t long before one gets the sense that there’s something off about Agora; something not quite right. Chances are it’s when Rachel Weisz, as the beguiling fourth-to-fifth-century Neoplatonist ...

Think of “Agora” as a sword-and-sandal epic with a Ph.D., as historic re-creation that serves as a metaphor for much that is going on today. And especially think of it as a throwback to the good old ...

Alejandro Amenabar's drama of ancient Egypt, "Agora," is based on the true story of Hypatia, a female scholar, philosopher and astronomer who believed in questioning everything in existence, including ...

At first glance, “Agora,” a rousing, finger-pointing drama from the Chilean-born director Alejandro Amenábar (“The Others,” “The Sea Inside”) is a bit of a puzzle. This is a good thing, since most ...

“Agora” (opening July 30 at Landmark’s La Jolla Village Theaters) looks to religious zealots in the 4th Century in the hopes of drawing some parallels to contemporary times. “Agora” opens in 391 A.D.